Google My Business: The Best Free Tool You Can’t Ignore

Published On: January 20, 2020

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Chances are, you’ve interacted with companies using Google My Business from the consumer side. Whenever you’ve turned to Google to search for a product or service near you, especially if you’re searching Google Maps, it’s very likely that the search results presented you with a list of options that pointed to the profile setup by that company using Google My Business. If you’re starting to wonder whether this is a service that’s right for you, or how to get your details listed, you’re in the right place.

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SEO Basics: Ranking for a Keyword

Published On: December 16, 2019

There’s a lot of talk in SEO and marketing circles about ranking for particular keywords. Much of the conversation centers around which keywords to choose, how to understand competitive keywords, how to make use of less-competitive or long-tail keywords, and how all these words will help potential customers find you. But, what does it all mean? What is ranking for a keyword? How do you make it happen? Let’s take a look.

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SEO: Super Simple Basics You Need to Know

Published On: November 25, 2019

The concept of search engine optimization (SEO) can be intimidating for those who are unfamiliar with how it works. While a deep-dive into all the intricacies of SEO will require a bit of dedication and time, there are a few basics that should form the foundation of every SEO strategy that everyone can tackle themselves.

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How Do I Sell Services and Attract Clients Organically?

Published On: November 11, 2019

Growing your business organically means bringing more traffic to your website from people who are using search engines like Google to solve problems. It’s also accomplished by capturing their attention on other digital assets such as your social media pages or your website’s blog and bringing them along a path toward a purchase. Organic traffic is different from paid traffic that arrives from clicking an ad you’ve paid for as those visitors are likely to find you by following a different path. Let’s take a look at developing organic traffic to boost sales of your services.

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Help! How Do I Get My Website, Social Media, and Online Store Going?

Published On: October 7, 2019

Whether you’re launching a new business, re-launching an existing company, or you’ve finally realized that you can’t do business anymore without an online presence, there’s a lot to keep track of. How do you get a website up and running? How do you use social media? What about SEO? What is SEO?

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How to Maximize Your Digital Marketing Budget

Published On: May 21, 2018

Your digital marketing strategy is a multi-faceted plan that usually involves a lot of moving parts. From social media marketing to search engine optimization, it can be difficult to know which elements will give you the most bang for your buck, and which can be pulled back when the budget requires you to.

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Aligning SEO and SEM

Published On: August 28, 2017

Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization might be separate strategies for getting more people to your website, but they are not independent of each other. If you want to make the most of your SEM efforts, aligning SEO and SEM will help you cover more bases. Here’s how.

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What is Local SEO?

Published On: November 2, 2015

For many small businesses, being found by local residents or other nearby businesses is essential to their success. If you think about businesses such as heating and cooling companies, or small bakeries, the search terms they are ranking for probably include a city, zip code, or the word “nearby.”

Google does a good job of figuring out where you are and when to include you in a list of local lineups, especially when the competition is not so hot. However, when you have a lot of local competition, you will want to know how to optimize your website and your business listings for local searchers.

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What is Link Building and Why Do I Need It?

Published On: October 26, 2015

This installment of our SEO for Beginners series will talk about link building. It is one of the most important aspects of SEO, but it can also be one of the most challenging. You’ll learn about what the idea behind all of it is, plus a few tips for link building the right way.

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Deciphering Some Technical SEO Best Practices, Part 2

Published On: October 19, 2015

On our journey through the SEO jungle, we are looking at the various ways that you can directly have an impact on how well you rank in a list of Google search results. So far, we have covered what quality content is and we talked about some of the technical aspects of search engine optimization that you should know about—specifically on-page optimization factors. Today, we are going to go through a few more on-page factors that Google is looking for when it is scanning your web pages.

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Deciphering Some Technical SEO Best Practices, Part 1

Published On: October 12, 2015

In our last post, we talked about how important it is to make sure your content is high quality. Google has its own customers—people using search engines—that it must answer to. By tailoring your content to Google and its customers, you can increase the likelihood that Google will return your content near the top of the list of search engine results. We also mentioned that there are a few technical bits to know about to give Google the right shortcuts to understand what your page is about, and that’s what we will detail in the next two posts.

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SEO: The Very Basics for Beginners

Published On: October 5, 2015

Promoting your site and your content are important ways to drive traffic to your website. However, up to 64 percent of web traffic comes from organic search, or when someone types a few words into a search engine like Google and chooses one of the unpaid links in the results. One recent survey gives 90 percent of all organic search credit to Google so today we will be talking about the best practices for getting your links to the top of Google’s results pages.

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